A President to Protect the Polluters

A President to Protect the Polluters

Do you know anyone who voted for Trump in 2024 because they were hoping for more pollution?  Probably not.  Predictably, though, Drill-Baby-Drill-Donald’s EPA Administrator just cancelled all kinds of regulations meant to protect clean air, clean water, and...
Promises, Promises: A Pity (and a Pittance?) for East Palestine

Promises, Promises: A Pity (and a Pittance?) for East Palestine

By Don Mayer It’s fairly commonplace for CEOs of U.S. companies to move quickly into crisis management mode after a public relations disaster.  Alan Shaw, CEO of Norfolk Southern, was in just such a mode after the February 2023 train derailment in East Palestine,...

Drill, Baby, Drill!

This month, we interrupt the parade of “perfectly legal but wrong” entries to bring you something questionably legal and clearly wrong.  Seismic testing in preparation for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could begin this winter.  In December...
The Precautionary Principle and International Efforts to Ban DDT

The Precautionary Principle and International Efforts to Ban DDT

INTRODUCTION In 1994, the U.S.-Canada International Joint Commission (IJC) recommended the phasing out of all organochlorines in the Great Lakes Basin, and did so in the strongest possible terms. Using the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1978 n2 (GLWQA) as its...